Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Balls

The beauty about blogging is that you (i.e. the blogger in question) choose what content to share i.e. no one needs to know about the disasters and experimentation fails. That being said, I’m going to own my recent kitchen blunders.

Case 1:Sunday evening

I noticed a few black bananas in our fruit bowl that were begging to either be thrown out or turned into muffins. I hate wasting food so I went with the latter option. After spending 10 minutes throwing together the ingredients and another 20 minutes of baking time, it was time to taste. I’m not going to lie: I was pretty chuffed at my nonchalant domestication and efficiency. I was meeting a few friends for dinner shortly after, so I wanted to take some for them too. Although the texture of the muffins was perfectly moist, they tasted inedible. I misread my recipe and ended up putting too much salt & baking soda. In case you’re wondering, savory banana bread is no bueno. I don’t even have a picture to share as I immediately chucked them out…which is oh so ironic given my reasons to bake them in the first place.

Case 2:Monday evening

I’ve been craving granola bars for the past week so attempted to make some from scratch. I even bought parchment paper & a suitable baking tray. After browsing various recipes for inspiration, I decided to go down the no-bake route. The idea of throwing together a handful of ingredients, flattening them in a baking tray and then refrigerating seemed foolproof…and it was. Everything went dandy until it was time to cut them into individual bars. In theory these bars should have each been rectangular but in reality, they were a crumbly mess.

As the batter was essentially raw, fortunately these bars could be salvaged…which brings me to Case 3 a.k.a third time lucky

Case 3:Monday evening post-granola bar slicing

I transferred the granola bar mix into a large bowl, rolled it into individual balls, set them in the freezer to harden, and hoped for the best. Ladies & gentleman, we have a winner…finally: Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Balls.

Maybe I’m doing something wrong but “brownies” containing black beans do not taste like brownies. Frozen fruit blended with protein powder is not “protein ice cream”. These balls, however, taste legit like cookie dough. As they’re full of complex carbs, healthy fats & a decent amount of protein, these cookie dough balls are the perfect pre- or post-workout snack…or any-time snack for that matter. Oh and did I mention they require all of zero seconds in the oven?

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Balls (Makes 10-12 balls)

Each ball contains 110 calories, 4g protein & 2g fiber

Ingredients

1 cup (=90g) rolled or quick-cooking oats

1/3 cup (=85g) natural peanut butter

1/4 cup (=35g) ground flaxseeds

2 tablespoons (=15g) chopped raisins

2 tablespoons (=15g) chopped hazelnuts

3 tablespoons (=50g) honey

Method

Combine all the ingredients in a bowl. Mix together until everything is thoroughly combined.

Use your hands to roll dough into individual balls, packing them tightly. Freeze for an hour.

Store balls in an airtight container in the freezer.

Notes

If you’re allergic to peanuts, any other nut or seed butter would work just as well

Khushboo – thanks for highlighting your kitchen blunders, lady – it takes balls to admit one’s blunders – and if balls like these are the result of your blunders – I say cheers to future blunderings!! 😉
Yes to incorporating chocolate chips into these balls! Do you think rolled oats are ok to use instead of quick cooking?
As for kitchen disasters, I have been experimenting with freekeh flour and have been trying to master a flipable pancake and have been so unlucky! If I mix it with a ton of other ingredients it is fine, but freekeh flour on its own – ugh! Oh well…but when I do get it right and post you have inspired me to post my failed attempts too.

My kitchen failures mostly include too long baking time. I always think it needs a LITTLE longer and then it turns out to be dry stone. I wait for me to get it and take the product out of the oven on time.

Love these balls! (haha.)
I need to stock up on nutbutter, I have this horrible situation of not having any at home.

Not gonna lie — the thought of savoury banana bread makes me kind of nauseous 😆 But the thought of cookie dough makes me all sorts of happy. I’m a huge fan of making no-bake bites, with [almond] butter, oats, chocolate, and honey being one of my favourite combos. Not surprising, since chocolate chip oatmeal cookies are my favourite of all time 😀

Hey Khushboo! Your blog is so inspiring. Tried two of your recipes- Almond nut butter and the cookie dough balls! I went wild with the balls and added loads of black currants, M&M’s and dark chocolate compound. They taste incredible!!
My almond butter turned out perfect in the first attempt too. All thanks to your tips and tricks!
Thanks, I’m officially a fan!

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